Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
Traffic from Facebook and Twitter dropped to 1.9% of the total during the month as the advocates tried desperately to insulate their little fiefdoms from the truth.
The downward trend in 2023 may indicate that the Love Triangle and its minions have stepped up efforts to bury the site.
RELATED: Socialist Media Update for November 2023.
More poison.
Removal by helicopters bad, removal by pesticides good.
Sterilizing the mares, as they are doing at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere, is part of the plan.
Anything to win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers.
What about areas identified for wild horses that have been zeroed out and are now managed almost exclusively for livestock?
Silence.
What about areas identified for wild horses that have nonzero AMLs corresponding to 20% of the authorized forage—which is most of them?
They’re OK with that too.
What about managing principally for wild horses as specified in the original statute?
Irrelevant. That was a long time ago.
What about the unlawful use of said pesticides?
Crickets. They’re not going to incriminate themselves.
That’s our job.
RELATED: Options for End-of-Year Giving.
The big-name advocacy groups are so far gone they can only be salvaged by complete house cleanings.
They’ve been overrun by defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.
They’re a disgrace to Velma’s legacy and don’t deserve a penny of your financial support.
Refer to this list of organizations to avoid.
There’s not enough water and forage to support the current number of horses according to a story dated December 22 by AP News.
Actually, there is.
The last paragraph in Section 3.12 of the Final EA for pest control and resource enforcement explains: “Livestock are currently experiencing direct competition by wild horses for available forage and water, both within HMAs and HAs.”
It’s not about rangeland health and endangered species.
The bureaucrats have assigned most of the resources to the public-lands ranchers, so the horses have to go.
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Yep, “Velma B. Johnston, or Wild Horse Annie, was a tireless advocate for wild horses and burros, and her legacy lives on through the work AWHC does and through the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.”
You didn’t know Velma was a defeatist, pesticide pusher and ranching sympathizer?
“Today, 52 years later, the Act has been significantly weakened thanks to the lobbying efforts of special interest groups.”
Such as the American Petroleum Institute?
They’re not trying to reverse those changes. They’re working with the bureaucrats and ranchers to implement them.
Adjectives used in the news flash: Beloved, Incredible, Innocent.
Just as the Democrat Party has convinced millions of voters to act against their own interests, CAAWH has duped thousands of donors into funding its anti-horse agenda.
RELATED: How CAAWH Stands Up to the Federal Government.
Issue a news release about overpopulation and excess animals.
Say nothing about forage allocations and the prevalence of livestock.
Float the idea of motorized removal.
They’ll be begging for nonmotorized removal, with ovary-killing pesticides, and they’ll provide it themselves at no cost to the government.
The federal government has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions since October 1 because Congress has not produced a FY24 spending bill.
So how is the BLM going to pay for additional gathers and removals?
They needed 45 minutes to free this woman’s lips from the BLM’s ass.
RELATED: How CAAWH Stands Up to the Federal Government.
The incident was set to begin on or about November 27.
As of today, no activity has been reported.
The advocates don’t think the roundup is necessary.
They’re praying for the older horses to die.
They’re praying for foals to be killed by predators.
They’re praying for the herd to shrink on its own, aided by pesticide-laced darts, so ranchers can access most of their food and water.
Why are you still giving them money?
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They need $200,000 from you by the end of the year to fund their important work.
Their representative doesn’t want to talk about wild horses and burros, she wants to talk about wild horse and burro management.
Reading from a carefully prepared script, she mentions fertility control four times in three minutes.
Adjectives used in the presentation: Beautiful, Magnificent.
From public comments at the WHBAB meeting on December 14.
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Using the National Day of the Horse as a backdrop, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, announced earlier this week an ambitious goal to raise $200K by the end of the month.
Adjectives used in the news flash: Iconic, Cherished.
“Hitting this goal will set our 2024 wild horse protection agenda.”
“By making a contribution towards our end-of-year goal, you can help ensure AWHC has the resources we need to stand up to the federal government and be a voice for these voiceless animals.”
What a bunch of crap!
They’re not standing up to the federal government, they’re working hand-in-hand with the federal government to poison as many mares as possible, liberating more and more resources for the public-lands ranchers.
RELATED: CAAWH Rakes in $146,690 on Defund the Advocates Day.
Grants awarded under this opportunity will support the agency’s mission of managing and protecting wild horses and burros on public lands, according to the news release.
Projects should align with the three tenets of rangeland management and could involve, for example, application of fertility control to slow herd growth, monitoring herd and land health, and improving rangeland habitat.
A useful topic in the area of land health would be to determine the forage allocations for wildlife, wild horses and livestock in every HMA and attach those results to existing pages about the HMAs, so the American people can see how resources are managed.
Then they will realize that overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support, and that all of the off-range corrals could be emptied several times over if the ranchers were confined to their base properties or discouraged from using public lands by bringing grazing fees in line with market rates.
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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, indicated in the November report that 162 mares received 162 doses of Zonastat-H during the month, 31 given as a primer and 131 as a booster.
Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, 1,978 mares have received an astonishing 8,399 doses of the ovary-killing pesticide.
Of the 175 foals born this year in the primary target zone, 90 have died, in some cases with the aid of predators.
The current population is thought to be 3,479 with 350 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,498 with 338 listed as missing in October.
A goal for December is to “Continue to maximize booster treatments to mares across the Virginia Range to prevent pregnancies, allowing for continued population reduction.”
Not discussed in the report:
The program is now in its fifth year and many of the mares are at the point of no return.
The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
The Virginia Range is subject to permitted grazing.
RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for October 2023.
Because of suspected involvement by some individuals in censoring the site.
The practice is still going on, stronger than ever, but at least your host not facilitating it.
Nearly 120 million acres according to the Public Lands Council, with grazing privileges on more than 250 million acres managed by the USFS and BLM.
Consider the new off-range corrals north of Winnemucca.
If a private owner can care for 4,000 horses on 100 acres, the ranchers should be able to maintain 4.8 billion (4,800,000,000) cow/calf pairs on their deeded acreage.
There’s no need for permitted grazing!
Why do they want access to public lands? Why do they view it as their birthright?
Profit, greed. It’s a gravy train, a government giveaway.
They pay pennies on the dollar to feed their animals, compared to the Winnemucca corrals, which are subsidized by taxpayers.
Solution? Confine the ranchers to their (multi-million-dollar) base properties, which they’re already doing, but make the off-season twelve months per year and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.
As a result, AMLs can be increased and the landmass identified for wild horses and burros in 1971 (around 53 million acres) can be managed principally for them, as specified in the original statute.
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What about their ongoing effort to eliminate the herd on the Virginia Range?
December is Defund the Advocates Month.
Refer to this page for a list of organizations to disown.
Traffic from Facebook and Twitter continued at the new normal level in November.
The downward trend in 2023 may indicate that the Love Triangle and its minions have stepped up efforts to bury the site.
WordPress started reporting traffic again from Twitter sometime during the month.
RELATED: Socialist Media Update for October 2023.
They’re poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.
They’re wasting your money on frivolous lawsuits.
They’re silent about resource management.
They carry water for the bureaucrats and ranchers.
They won’t let nature run its course.
Resolve now to cut them off!
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, on the Verge of Collapse Edition.
They’re not conserving anything. They’re leaders in nonmotorized removal!
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On the defensive side you have wild horses and burros.
On the offensive side you have the ranching juggernaut, referred to as the Love Triangle on these pages, and its minions.
Who do you suppose will win?
If you take a position on the defensive side, you will be crushed.
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